As the new director, Cameron Shaw has developed an all-Black, all-female leadership team and is forging a five-year partnership with Mark Bradford’s nonprofit.
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California African American Museum Appoints Cameron Shaw as Executive Director
By Sentinel News Service
Cameron Shaw (Courtesy photo)
The California African American Museum (CAAM) announced that Cameron Shaw has been appointed executive director. She has served the Museum as deputy director and chief curator since September 2019.
“We are delighted that Cameron Shaw has agreed to lead the Museum into the future, continuing CAAM’s remarkable trajectory. She has admirably navigated CAAM’s closure due to COVID-19, all the while strategizing and fundraising for several exciting initiatives to come once Los Angeles museums are allowed to reopen,” said Board President Todd Hawkins. Shaw’s appointment follows the retirement of George O. Davis, the executive director since 2015.
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The California African American Museum board of directors unanimously voted Monday to name Cameron Shaw as the institution’s new executive director.
Since September 2019, Shaw has served as CAAM’s deputy director and chief curator, overseeing curatorial affairs, education and public programming and communications and marketing efforts.
Shaw’s appointment follows the retirement of George O. Davis, who was the executive director since 2015.
A native Angeleno, Shaw recalled visiting the museum as a child. “CAAM was the job I found myself called to, and it feels just really right,” she said.
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As deputy director and chief curator at the state museum, Shaw secured major support including a $300,000 Art Museum Futures grant from the Mellon Foundation and a $120,000 Getty Pacific Standard Time 2024 research grant for “World Without End: The George Washington Carver Project,” which she is co-curating.